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DH shared this with me (see below) and I'm going to insert comments please.

Google searches: 13.6 million+ per month

Number of books: incalculable

To non-Muslims, Muhammad founded Islam. To Muslims, he did not found anything, because the religion, called Islam, was already there, and had to be restored to its proper maintenance. Muslims believe that Muhammad restored the religion and unified it under the philosophies God imparted to him in revelations he wrote down. These became the Q’uran. Islam is the Arabic noun for “a surrendering,” or “a yielding,” in this case to the will of Allah. Muhammad was born about A.D. 570 in Makkah (Mecca), Saudi Arabia. He had 13 wives, which is acceptable and encouraged (not encouraged in the least. Muslims are allowed up to 4 wives at most, at the same time, under strict conditions involving provisions and entailing fairness) in Muslim cultures (what a misnomer. Islam is a Deen (way of life) that Muslims practice/live and sometimes, usually and quite often, they mix it with their own cultures and background or regional practices. That does not mean its Islamic. It means followers of the Islamic way of life bring their own backgrounds, ideas, and yes, baggage into the Deen).

Muhammad’s status as second most famous person in history is especially remarkable given that it is illegal according to Islamic law to depict Muhammad in any way (which is why you don’t see him in the above picture). That law dictates that Muhammad is the last prophet to have been sent by God to teach mankind the ways of peace and righteousness, and that he is too holy to be viewed by our sinful eyes (what sinful eyes? is this guy even reading what he wrote or is he purposely trying to incite and instigate? Muhammad (Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him) forbade his followers and the worshipers of Allah from depicting him in any medium so the people who come after would not get into the issues that followers of Jesus (upon him be Peace of Allah) are facing, such as what really was his color, height, etc, with every ethnicity depicting him (alayhe salaam) as they fancy, not to mention other even more major issues). For this reason, very few films have been made about him. The most notable was The Message (1977), the premiere of which incited suicide bombings throughout the Middle East and protests around the world (source?), until everyone realized that Muhammad is not actually depicted; rather, the camera’s point of view represents him: the film is seen through his eyes.

If you’d like to know, there is nothing in the Q’uran that states, “To kill Americans, both civil and military, is the duty of every Muslim who is able.” That nonsense was concocted by various Middle Eastern leaders over the years, mostly in the last half of the 20th Century and beyond (I'm Muslim and have never heard this slogan before from any leader of mine... wonder what he is talking about?!). These leaders know full well that knowledge is power and have done their level best to hoard literacy education from the public. The literacy rate in Yemen is currently about 70%, which is terrible compared to “more civilized” countries like the USA, England, Germany, and Japan (Yemen is not a first world country last I checked. And what source is he basing his information in anyway?). And because the Middle Eastern Muslim public largely cannot read the Q’uran (what is he saying? every Muslim child is taught about and how to read the Quran. It is the first thing they read and when all other information is kept away from them, the Quran certainly isnt, at the very least in oral form), the governments disseminate anti-American, anti-Western lies to indoctrinate them into hatred.

Muhammad died on 8 June A.D. 632 in Medina, Saudi Arabia, having united the whole of the Middle East under a single God, whose name is Allah. There are many spellings of Muhammad, including Mohammed, Moammar, Mehmet, Mahomet, and others. Because of him, Muhammad is the most common given name in the world, with about 200 million carriers. “Muhammad” means “praised.”